The Complexity of Social Capital: The Influence of Board and Ownership Interlocks on Implied Cost of Capital in an Emerging Market by Luciano Rossoni, Cezar Eduardo Aranha, Wesley Mendes-Da-Silva

“…Starting from sociological perspectives on complexity, we show how the social capital of boards and owners networks affects the implied cost of capital of companies listed on Brazilian stock exchange. …”
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Enhancing arabic morphology learning for beginners: the effectiveness of the eclectic method in modern islamic boarding school by Syahrani Dewi Ajie, Asep Sopian, Shofa Musthofa Khalid

“…The samples in this research are 42 students of class VIII A and B of Manāhij As-Sādāt Modern Boarding School. The results of this research show that the eclectic method average is 65.14% which means it is quite effective to be used in learning morphology for beginners. …”
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A Bounded Lifetime Distribution Specified by a Trigonometric Function: Properties, Regression Model, and Applications by Simon A. Ogumeyo, Festus C. Opone, Abdul Ghaniyyu Abubakari, Jacob C. Ehiwario

“…The results of the fittings show that the new bounded distribution performs significantly better than the competing bounded lifetime distributions. …”
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Smartphone’s Sensing Capabilities for On-Board Railway Track Monitoring: Structural Performance and Geometrical Degradation Assessment by André Paixão, Eduardo Fortunato, Rui Calçada

“…Cross-correlation values above 0.85 were obtained between the standard deviations of the longitudinal level and the experimental vertical accelerations measured on-board a passenger train on an 11-km railway stretch. …”
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PETROL FİYATLARI İLE BORSA İSTANBUL’UN KAPANIŞ FİYATLARI ARASINDAKİ SAKLI İLİŞKİNİN ANALİZİ by Sefer Şener, Veli Yılancı, Muhammed Tıraşoğlu

“…Bu çalışmada Borsa İstanbul’un kapanış fiyatları ile petrol fiyatları arasındaki ilişki 2002-2012 dönemi için günlük veri kullanılarak, Granger ve Yoon (2003) ile Hatemi-J ve Irandoust (2012) tarafından literatüre kazandırılan saklı eşbütünleşme testleri ile incelenmiştir. …”
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Corrosion Resistant Coating from Nano Printed Circuit Board Powder for the Reinforced Concrete Structures by R. Mohana, D. Selvaganesh, A. Anto Issac, M. Vignesh Kumar

“…In this paper, a novel anticorrosive powder was derived from the waste Printed Circuit Board (PCB) and manually coated on the steel rebar of the reinforced concrete specimen. …”
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Optimal receiver and blind demodulation performance bounds for single channel co-frequency mixed signals by YU Hongyi, ZHA Renpeng, SHEN Zhixiang, SHEN Caiyao, HU Yunpeng

“…Based on the sufficient statistics model, a lower bound on the performance of single-channel blind demodulation for co-frequency mixed signals was derived using Forney’s method. …”
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An Analysis of the Determinants of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Scores at the Firm level on Borsa İstanbul Companies by Sinan Aytekin, Nida Abdioğlu

“…This study aims to analyse the factors at the firm level that influence the ESG scores of 34 companies traded on Borsa Istanbul between 2018 and 2022. While the dependent variables are the ESG scores, the independent variables are financial leverage (LEV),c the logarithm of total assets (SIZE), return on invested capital (ROIC), return on capital employed (ROCE), market to book value (MB) ratio, and foreign net transactions/total volume (YS) ratio. …”
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Vibroacoustic Analysis of a Rectangular Enclosure Bounded by a Flexible Panel with Clamped Boundary Condition by Yuan Wang, Jianrun Zhang, Vanquynh Le

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A new approach to error inequalities: From Euler-Maclaurin bounds to cubically convergent algorithm by Miguel Vivas-Cortez, Usama Asif, Muhammad Zakria Javed, Muhammad Uzair Awan, Yahya Almalki, Omar Mutab Alsalami

“…With the help of a new auxiliary result and some well-known ones, like Hölder's, the power mean, improved Hölder, improved power mean, convexity, and bounded features of the function, we obtained new bounds for Euler-Maclaurin's inequality. …”
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Religious Investor Sentiment, Shariah Compliance Impact, and Theological Risk: Evidence from Bursa Malaysia by Murat Yaş, Mohamed Eskandar Shah Mohd Rasid, Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Saad Azmat

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Scattering and Bound States of a Spin-1/2 Neutral Particle in the Cosmic String Spacetime by Fabiano M. Andrade, Cleverson Filgueiras, Edilberto O. Silva

“…Examining the poles of the S-matrix we obtain an expression for the bound states. The presence of bound states for this system has not been discussed before in the literature.…”
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Concurrent Extraction and Analysis of Atmospheric Particulate Matter-bound PBDEs, PAHs, Nitrated PAHs, and OPEs by Hsin-Chieh Kung, Bo-Wun Huang, Chien-Er Huang, Nicholas Kiprotich Cheruiyot, Guo-Ping Chang-Chien

“…Abstract This study aimed to develop and validate a robust method for the simultaneous extraction of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), nitrated PAHs (N-PAHs), and organophosphate esters (OPEs) bound to atmospheric particulate matter. These compounds are widely distributed pollutants known to have detrimental effects on both human health and the environment. …”
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Restoration of Gottseelige Schluess und Fuersaetz der Seele, an eighteenth century vellum bound book by Margit J. Smith

“…The article concerns the complete restoration of an 18th century vellum bound book printed in Würzburg. All work was done during a workshop at the Centro del bel libro in Ascona, Switzerland, under the direction of Ms Renate Mesmer. …”
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Inducing salt stress tolerance in bitter gourd (Momordica chanrantia) through seed treatment with chitosan by Ahsan Ali, Fiaz Hussain Ferdosi, Mubeen Sarwar, Sumreen Anjum, Zain Mushtaq, Mehwish Liaquat, Muhammad Taqqi Abbas, Moazzam Anees, Muhammad Rizwan Tariq, M. Irfan Ashraf, Abdulrahman Alasmari, Md Sabir Ahmed Mondol, Gholamreza Abdi

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Foot Reflection Board Menurunkan Neuropati Perifer pada Penyandang Diabetes Mellitus Tipe 2 by Anggun Berliana Dewi, Rosa Delima Ekwantini, Nurun Laasara

“…Ada pengaruh foot reflection board terhadap penurunan neuropati perifer pada penyandang diabtes mellitus. …”
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Efficient Bounding Schemes for the Two-Center Hybrid Flow Shop Scheduling Problem with Removal Times by Lotfi Hidri, Anis Gharbi, Mohamed Aly Louly

“…A heuristic and a lower bound are proposed for this NP-Hard problem. These procedures are based on the optimal solution of the parallel machine scheduling problem with release dates and delivery times. …”
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An Improvement of the Lower Bound on the Maximum Number of Halving Lines for Sets in the Plane with an Odd Number of Points by Javier Rodrigo, Mariló López, Danilo Magistrali, Estrella Alonso

“…In this paper, we give examples that improve the lower bound on the maximum number of halving lines for sets in the plane with 35, 59, 95, and 97 points and, as a consequence, we improve the current best upper bound of the rectilinear crossing number for sets in the plane with 35, 59, 95, and 97 points, provided that a conjecture included in the literature is true. …”
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PHYSICO-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF WOOD AND NON-WOOD PLASTER OF PARIS BONDED COMPOSITE CEILING BOARDS by TEMIDAYO EMMANUEL OMONIYI, KAYODE AYODELE AJOBIEWE

Subjects: “…wood composites, physico-mechanical, fibre reinforcement, plaster of Paris, ceiling board.…”
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Robust l2−l∞ Filtering for Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Systems with Norm-Bounded Uncertainties by Wenbai Li, Yu Xu, Huaizhong Li

“…We study the filter design problem for Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems which are subject to norm-bounded uncertainties in each subsystem. As we know that the Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy linear systems can be used to represent smooth nonlinear systems, the studied plants can also be uncertain complex systems. …”
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